Note 218 — Chapter XXXIV · CLANRICARDE AND IRETON, 1651
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Ludlow, i. 288; Thurloe, i. 212; Contemp. Hist. iii. passim. Cromwell is said to have specially recommended O’Neill to Philip IV., as a good soldier. On February 4, 1652-3, O’Neill petitioned the Council of State, and on April 1 he was discharged from the Tower, Cal. of S.P. Dom.